VanBeek, Simon 1933-1998

VANBEEK, BUMA, VANDEHOEF

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 5/5/2013 at 21:52:00

Simon Van Beek

July 20, 1933—March 19,1998

Simon Van Beek, 64, of Rock Valley died Thursday, March 19, at the Hegg

Memorial Hospital in Rock Valley. Services were at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Calvin Christian Reformed Church in Rock Valley with the Rev. Mark

Kelderman officiating. Burial was in Valley View Cemetery.

Van Beek was born July 20, 1933, in Rock Valley, the son of Gerrit and Clara (Buma) Van Beek. He married Henrietta Vande Hoef March 10, 1953,in Sioux Center. Hie couple lived near Rock Valley Where he fanned and had a livestock trucking business. He was a member of Heritage Reformed Church in Hull.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Ken and his wife Barb of Rock Valley and Glenn of Hull; three daughters and their husbands, Shirley and Kevin De Weerd of Hudson, South Dakota, Sue and Barry Harthoorn of Doon and Sherry and Daryl Albertson of Marshalltown; a brother and his wife, Harry and Rena of Rock Valley, a sister and her husband, Everdena and Bill Koedam of Rock Valley; and 10 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Pete, Nick and Mease; and a sister, Agnes Blom.

Source: Sioux Center News of March 24, 1998